books about: insurrections

books about: insurrections

books:

Insurrections

Journal Revolution: Rise Up & Create! Art Journals, Personal Manifestos and Other Artistic Insurrections

Linda Woods, Karen Dinino

North Light Books, 2007

Awesome book!!!
Journal Revolution should be on every creative person's book shelf. It's one of those books that you keep nearby and randomly flip open when you need a double shot of artistic espresso. It is a *great* follow up to their first book, Visual Chronicles. For me, the ...

Insurrection

David Weber, Steve White

Baen, 1990

United in war, divided in peace
"Insurrection" is a collaboration between two masters of military science fiction, David Weber and Steve White. The book explores the causes and progress of a civil war between parts of a Terran Federation originating from Earth and then bound together in the ...

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

Stephen B. Oates

Harper Perennial, 1990

Learning the truth about the legend
Nat Turner led the largest slave rebellion in American history. That is an indisputable fact. Unfortunately, not much else is known about the life of this legendary figure. Why did he do what he did? How was he able to do it? What was it about the man that made ...

Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom: A Thirst for Freedom

Walter Dean Myers

Dutton Juvenile, 1998

Amistad - Give Us Free
Myers, Walter Dean (1998) Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom. New York: Dutton Children's Books and DreamWorks. 99pgs. ISBN: 0-525-45970-7. Chapter and Picture Book. Primary Topics: Slavery, Abolitionism, US Political, Legal History; Ethnicity, Morality, Diversity. ...

Nat Turner

Kyle Baker

Abrams, 2008

Stunning, important
This is easily one of the most stunning graphic novels of the past decade, and Baker might just be one of the most important graphic novelists around now. The book is virtually wordless, except for minimal sound effects and dialog, along with historical source notes. ...

The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Kenneth S. Greenberg

Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996

Great book
This is a terrific book. The introduction is particularly insightful. This is a good book for anybody interested in the history of slavery and slave rebellions.

Insurrection (Forgotten Realms: R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen, Book 2)

Thomas M. Reid

Wizards of the Coast, 2003

Difficult to put down!
This was a difficult book to put down. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as the action never seemed to stop. Aliisza adds a fun aspect to the story that was unexpected and fun to read. Although a bit more time was spent in the book about their journey to Ched ...

Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History ...

Laurent Dubois, John D. Garrigus

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006

Fascinating
I could not be helped but be moved by the documents in this book. The author did an incredible job of helping the reader understand the importance of San Domingue and the other French colonies by including letters, articles and transcripts. This was so important to my ...

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

Vintage, 1992

Superb. Left me breathless
I too, am going to have to say that many recent reviewers have said what I would say if I could express myself so eloquently. This is a powerful and beautifully written book. I had heard about it and was curious, but had no idea the impact it would have on me. As a ...

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

Ada Ferrer

The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Pathbreaking work on race and revolution
Insurgent Cuba tracks the transformation of racial and gendered narratives of the revolution from the abolition of slavery to the war of independence. In this fascinating and pathbreaking book, Professor Ferrer reveals that, with the emergence of late 19th century ...

Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection
Jeremy D. Popkin

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to the first independent black republic of the modern era. Inspired by the revolution that had recently roiled their French rulers, black slaves and people of mixed race alike rose up against their oppressors in a bloody insurrection that led to the ...

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

A seminal work
An excellent work in which the authors look intensely at one aspect of a subject (runaways) to throw light on the whole (i.e., slavery and how terrible it actually was). Very readable, excellent use of primary source materials. A little slow going at first, where ...

Spartacus (North Castle Books)

Howard Fast

M.E. Sharpe, 1996

A "novel" bit of propaganda
"Spartacus" gives the lie to the scientific law that two bodies cannot occupy the same space: it exists simultaneously as an epic piece of historical fiction and as powerful (if less-than-subtle) bit of Leftist propaganda. The fact that most people know the story of ...

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934

Thomas Doherty

Columbia University Press, 1999

Censorship and Politics (And Who Can Tell the Difference)
Thomas Doherty's Pre-Code Hollywood (Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930 - 1934) is a wonderful study of Hollywood and the movies it produced before the Production Code gained its censorious teeth and bloodied them on celluloid. The most ...

After the Death of God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

Gianni Vattimo, John D. Caputo

Columbia University Press, 2007

The modern meaning of the religious faith
I think that it is a very profound dialogue on the true meaning of the faith in a world confused about politics, religion and secolarization.